The Second Roche–Nature Medicine Translational Neuroscience Symposium on Autism and other developmental brain disorders was a resounding success. Ten years ago, if someone had suggested that we ...

especially when it comes to brain disorders such as autism spectrum disorder. Not surprisingly, samples are hard to get. Despite the great need for brain tissue, donations remain rare and aren't ...

Researchers have shown previously that excessive proliferation of the cells of the brain, which can cause macrocephaly, or large head size, is associated with autism. Now, the authors of a study ...

Genetic variants linked to autism are associated with structural differences in neonatal white matter, particularly increased ...

By analyzing two large rsfMRI datasets from the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange (ABIDE I and II), they identified three dimensions of brain-behavior relationships. These dimensions corresponded ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Alison Escalante M.D. covers parenting, pediatrics and neurodiversity. Neurodiversity advocates have long argued that autistic brains are ...

Many researchers have speculated that synapses, the connections that allow brain cells to communicate, are altered in autism. Previous studies have suggested this possibility based on animal ...

Jan 14 (Reuters) - Autism spectrum disorder is a neurological and developmental condition marked by disruptions in brain-signaling that cause people to behave, communicate, interact, and learn in ...

Kathleen Stein donated the brain of her brother, Ed Stein, who lived a full life with autism, to further research into the ...

"So Neuralink, I think at first will solve a lot of brain-related diseases. So could be anything from like autism, schizophrenia, memory loss - like everyone experiences memory loss at certain ...